The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - Всего страниц: 413 |
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... invasion of William the Conqueror in the year 1066. It corresponds with that tumultuous stage in European History , which we know by the name of the Dark Ages . Our third Period , beginning with the Norman Conquest , may be set down as ...
... invasion of William the Conqueror in the year 1066. It corresponds with that tumultuous stage in European History , which we know by the name of the Dark Ages . Our third Period , beginning with the Norman Conquest , may be set down as ...
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... Norman Conquest , which we take as the commencement of the Middle Ages for England , introduced the country , by one mighty stride , into the circle of continental Europe . Not only did it establish close relations between our island ...
... Norman Conquest , which we take as the commencement of the Middle Ages for England , introduced the country , by one mighty stride , into the circle of continental Europe . Not only did it establish close relations between our island ...
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... Norman conquest , or soon afterwards , the Celtic Scots were confined within limits corres- ponding nearly with those which now bound their descendants . And here , while we are looking beyond the Anglo - Saxon frontiers , it is to be ...
... Norman conquest , or soon afterwards , the Celtic Scots were confined within limits corres- ponding nearly with those which now bound their descendants . And here , while we are looking beyond the Anglo - Saxon frontiers , it is to be ...
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... Norman Conquest are very numerous ; but a few are to be found which have plausibly been assigned to celebrated bards of the sixth century . It is pleasant to believe that the great Taliessin still speaks to us from his grave ; that we ...
... Norman Conquest are very numerous ; but a few are to be found which have plausibly been assigned to celebrated bards of the sixth century . It is pleasant to believe that the great Taliessin still speaks to us from his grave ; that we ...
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... Norman Conquest introduced into England a foreign race of nobles and landholders , dispossessing certainly a large majority , and probably almost the whole body , of those who had been the ruling class in the preceding times . But the ...
... Norman Conquest introduced into England a foreign race of nobles and landholders , dispossessing certainly a large majority , and probably almost the whole body , of those who had been the ruling class in the preceding times . But the ...
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